After Life
A Fiction, Paranormal, Mystery book. A town is a heartless thing, unfaithful and forgetful. It will never...
Naomi Ash was born in New Orleans and raised by her mother, Patsy, a medium who schooled her young daughter in the parlor-trick chicanery of the trade. From Naomi recreating presences with table cloths to providing the voice of the dead by talking through a fan, their act is part theater, part magic, and a little too much playing with the letter of the law. Eventually they must beat a hasty—and forced—retreat from New Orleans, relocating to Train Line, New York.A sleepy...
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the true horror of the world: it is that once a thing is done, it can never be undone. A universe of wishing cant uncrush a bug, or unspeak a word, or erase even the tiniest action from the pasts ledger. The past is fixed and unalterable, a tyrant, and none of us has any power against it. Rhian Ellis, After Life // The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea. Rhian Ellis, After Life // A town is a heartless thing, unfaithful and forgetful. It will never love you back. Rhian Ellis, After Life //
Another BEA 2012 offering. This one is a Nancy Pearl Book Lust Rediscovery. This was a bit different and I like different but there didn't seem to be much plot to pull it along. You'd think when there is murder involved it would be more compelling. I listened to the audio, narrated by Shannon McManus, who does a good job, however, her... Rhian Ellis's "After Life" is the first novel I've read from Nancy Pearl's "Rediscoveries" series, a collection of previously out-of-print books Librarian of the Gods and NPR Morning Edition regular Pearl identified as unread and/or under praised gems of the 20th century. Hand-picked by Pearl, these novels have been republished and... After Life was a delight to read from beginning to end. The novel opens with the compelling line: First I had to get his body into the boat. The narrator is Naomi Ash, a woman in her early 30s who lives in Train Line, a whole town owned by The Church of Spiritualist Studies in Upstate New York."My first impression of the town was of...
